#bourne trilogy

[borntoselfdestruct]

i made an edit for them after 15 years 😅 i don't even think there are any fans on here, but i finished a video so i'll share

[currymanganese]

This hold this music video, the Bourne Trilogy, Banlieue 13 and Mirror's Edge had on me as a child - pure nostalgia. Parkour/freerunning and traceurs broke containment into pop culture in the mid 2000s to my great pleasure <3

[figures4fun]

When you’re an MI6 agent tasked with tracking down a Treadstone weapon (JB vs JB)

[raisedbythetv89]

what ya got there?

oh uh…. just my emotional support assassin *clutches him tightly to my chest*

[datcloudboi]

List of Films Turning 20 Years Old in 2024

The Alamo (the one with Dennis Quaid)

Alexander ((the Alexander the Great biopic directed by Oliver Stone and starring Colin Farrell)

Alien vs. Predator

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

The Aviator (the Howard Hughes biopic directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leo DiCaprio)

Barbershop 2: Back in Business

Before Sunset

Blade: Trinity

The Bourne Supremacy

The Butterfly Effect

Catwoman

Cellular (an action-thriller starring Kim Basinger and Chris Evans)

The Chronicles of Riddick

Closer

Collateral

Dawn of the Dead (the remake directed by Zack Snyder and written by James Gunn)

The Day After Tomorrow

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

Downfall

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Fahrenheit 9/11 (the Michael Moore documentary about how the Bush administration handled the aftermath of September 11, as well as their handling of the Invasion of Iraq)

50 First Dates

Finding Neverland (a biopic about J. M. Barrie, the guy who wrote “Peter Pan”. Barrie was played by Johnny Depp)

Friday Night Lights

Garden State

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Hellboy

Hidalgo

Home on the Range (one of Disney's most often forgotten animated movies)

House of Flying Daggers

Howl's Moving Castle

I Heart Huckabees

I, Robot

The Incredibles

Kill Bill Volume 2

King Arthur (the one with Clive Owen)

The Ladykillers (the remake of the 1955 movie of the same name directed by the Coen Brothers)

Layer Cake (the first movie directed by Matthew Vaughn, who would go on to direct “Kick-Ass” and “Kingsman”)

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

The Lion King 1 1/2

The Machinist (the movie where Christian Bale lost like 60 pounds)

The Manchurian Candidate (the remake of the movie of the same name starring Denzel Washington)

Mean Girls

Million Dollar Baby

Miracle

Napoleon Dynamite

National Treasure

The Notebook

Ocean's Twelve

The Passion of the Christ

The Phantom of the Opera

The Place Promised in Our Early Days (the first film directed by Makoto Shinkai)

The Polar Express

Primer ((the time travel movie where you sit in a box for 12 hours and be back in time 12 hours. I think.)

The Punisher (the Thomas Jane one)

Ray (the Ray Charles biopic)

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Saw (the 1st one)

Scooby-Doo 2: Monster Unleashed

Seed of Chucky

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Shaun of the Dead

Shrek 2

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Spanglish

Spider-Man 2

The Spongebob Squarepants Movie

Team America: World Police

The Terminal

13 Going on 30

Troy

Van Helsing

The Village

[terriblespy]

you wish you were me

[spockvarietyhour]

Tonight's movie

[jones7thavenue]

I've replaced and expanded my collection so much it's been way better than Tylenol. 2023 had been really been a trainwreck at first, but, after 4.75 months of being single, I got out of the wreckage without scars and with lessons to apply to life in 2024 + beyond.

Here's my latest additions to my movie + TV show collection.

[kunosoura]

I think my favorite take on the whole kill vs spare video game narrative thing is Alpha Protocol, where sparing people usually means leaving dangerous paramilitary mercenaries, violent extremists who target civilian populations, amoral arms dealers, and drug kingpins - almost all people who unambiguously make the world a worse place by their actions - alive; if you get the ending where you merely expose the conspiracy and go on the run, they all continue as they were, killing and arms dealing and all, but if you take over the conspiracy yourself, they become your global geopolitical pawns because of your newfound power and the incredible amount of dirt you have on them.

[absolxguardian]

Andor and the freedom of metaphor

Disclaimer: I have not watched any of the Bourne films, but I have listened to all of the Kill James Bond episodes on the series.

Tony Gilroy, as you might have seen in some of the trailers, is the showrunner of Andor. He also co-wrote Rogue One, the first three Bourne movies, and wrote/directed the Bourne Legacy. The Bourne films exist in a constant conflict between depicting the CIA (accurately) as evil, the antagonists who operate an illegal CIA death squad that birthed Jason Bourne and are now hunting him while also staying within the pro-American imperialism party line of mainstream Hollywood. The Bourne Legacy is the film where this comes to ahead, where it is revealed that inside the CIA there is a second evil CIA that actually did all the Treadstone stuff.

Given what we’ve gotten in Andor, I believe that Tony Gilroy himself is not conflicted in this way. He has a clear conception and hatred of imperialism in all its forms, as shown in the well crafted analogies and real world similarities in the show that many other people have written about. It is implicit or explicit executive interference that has muddled the themes of the Bourne films he has been involved in. Despite Andor being as mainstream as the Bourne films in its production, Tony Gilroy has been able to write something a lot less compromised because on its surface it isn’t about the evils of the American (or British, or whoever) state. 

This is one of the powers of speculative settings like Star Wars. Not only does working in metaphor and similarities to the real world allow you to present unique angle and address a different variety of topics than you could with a single story when only using the real world (or think about how many different people could relate to the Dhani when they aren’t just one real world group),  it also lets your work have a wider reach. Somehow Disney didn’t object to all the themes present in Andor, but they sure would if it was about America and a real mega-corporation. While the ISB hasn’t really done any intelligence work on screen yet, they are the space!CIA, and unlike in the Bourne films, there is no equivocation required. You’ll also avoid the controversy that would otherwise emerge if the anti-imperialist themes in your work were explicitly anti-American. This could perhaps help your message reach some more people, people who when you aren’t making them start on the defensive by criticising “their team”.

If you want to make even a subtextually anti-war film using real world militaries, that isn’t going to happen in Hollywood anymore. The studio is going to want to get the free sets and props and rather than hire an consultant so that you can actually depict everything accurately, they’re going to bring on the DOJ who while they will help keep things accurate in the technical sense, the involvement of the government will turn your film into propaganda. But there’s no easy financial carrot when the military you’re depicting are a bunch of stormtroopers instead.

And this isn’t the first time this has happened with Star Wars. George Lucas could have never made a film where the heroes team up with the Viet Cong and then drive America out of their country. Except, he did. It’s called Return of the Jedi and the Viet Cong are also cute little teddy bears. And that’s only one example. Andor is just contiuning the long tradition of using an sci-fi fantasy setting to depict anti-imperialist themes while still being acceptable to executives and embraced by a wider audience, even if many of them don’t pick up on the subtext.

[moony2moon]

James Bond Jason Bourne

[tidepoolalgae]

the bourne identity intrigues me and I do keep turning the pages but one thing that really annoys me is how Marie and Jason's relationship is written... I get people do get infatuated and fall in love in a short time but the whole thing as it is in the book kinda squicks me out. It's just not my cup of tea, which is okay, I just wish I could read the book without certain things wrt their relationship taking me out of the story

[vents-anon]

i just watched the jason bourne trilogy for the first time in like eleven years and. my god. i've never seen a more scathing criticism of not only the united states government but also western imperialism as a whole.

[live-laugh-obsess]

marvel literally could not make the winter soldier today. it takes itself and its characters too seriously

[writtenbygrimes]

The Othering of Language

A discussion on the use of dialogue and language in novels. #language #power #dialogue #sharonbala #theboatpeople #robertludlum #thebournetrilogy #umbertoeco #thenameoftherose

This past weekend, I attended a workshop put on by The FOLD, The Festival of Literary Diversity. The author of the award-winning novel, The Boat People, Sharon Bala, was the speaker. The workshop, titled Mastering Dialogue, provided wonderful examples to illustrate the many delicious layers of dialogue and how authors use dialogue in various ways to show power dynamics, address elephants in the…

[caraianellisande]

Breaking News! My father, known Rings of Power enjoyer, did not like Dune 2! He said it was a bad adaptation!

This is surprising because his usual response to media is that quality doesn't really matter as long as he's enjoying himself. Hence liking the Rings of Power. He also only gave up on GoT in season 8. He likes the suicide squad episode of it.

And his response wasn't "this is so boring and just not fun that it makes it impossible for me to ignore the flaws" (His response to the wheel of time show).

He straight up said it was a bad adaptation. I don't think he's ever used those words.

He has always been a Dune fanboy, so it makes sense he'd hold it to a higher standard but I always thought he held Dune and Lord of the Rings in equal regards, so if he liked rings of power, and the hobbit movies, he'd like the Dune movies regardless of quality. But seems like I was wrong. Dune is dearer to his heart than LotR.

I gues that if these move had come out 20 years ago they'd be the ones he watched every night (every. Single. Night) instead of LotR. I'd be a Sci-Fy girlie instead of a Fantasy girlie.

I don't really have a point with this, i'm just flaggerbasted by this turn of events lol.